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Nate Ryan
| USA TODAY Sports

Matt Kenseth finished the first race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup where he started the 10-race title run: At the top.

The No. 1 seed in NASCAR's championship playoff opened the Chase with his sixth victory of the season, taking the lead from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch on a restart with 22 laps remaining at Chicagoland Speedway.

Kenseth's victory capped a marathon Geico 400, which ended shortly after 11 p.m. CDT on Monday - nearly 10 hours after it was scheduled to begin. The race was red-flagged for five hours and 10 minutes because of rain after starting an hour and 20 minutes late ...